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PASTORAL GUIDELINES AND CORE VALUES IN PROMOTING NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING

PASTORAL GUIDELINES AND CORE VALUES IN PROMOTING NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING Antonio J. Ledesma , S.J., D.D. Archbishop of Cagayan de Oro. PASTORAL SITUATION: Majo r ity of couples today have three felt needs:

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PASTORAL GUIDELINES AND CORE VALUES IN PROMOTING NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING

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  1. PASTORAL GUIDELINES AND CORE VALUES IN PROMOTING NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING Antonio J. Ledesma, S.J., D.D. Archbishop of Cagayan de Oro Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  2. PASTORAL SITUATION: • Majority of couples today have three felt needs: • They want family planning – re family size and spacing of births. Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  3. PASTORAL SITUATION: • Majority of couples today have three felt needs: • They prefer natural family planning – if given adequate information on fertility awareness and NFP methods. Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  4. PASTORAL SITUATION: • Majority of couples today have three felt needs: • They want to choose among NFP methods – to suit their own circumstances and preference. Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

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  8. (Means) FAMILY PLANNING (3) NATURAL (NFP) BBT – Basal Body Temperature BOM – Billings Ovulation Method (Goal) (2) RESPONSIBLE PARENTHOOD a) procreation b) education (First Principle) (1) PRO-LIFE STM – Sympto-Thermal Method LAM – Lactational Amenorrhea Method SDM – Standard Days Method TDM – TwoDay Method (Context: Pluralistic society) (4) INFORMED & MORALLY RESPONSIBLE CHOICE Four Pastoral Guidelines for an RP-NFP Program

  9. We • are • Pro-Life. Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  10. We are Pro-Life. • The human person is created in the image of God. Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  11. We are Pro-Life. • The human person is created by God in unity of body and soul. Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  12. We are Pro-Life. • The human person is open to transcendence: he is open to the infinite and to all created beings. Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  13. We are Pro-Life. 4) The human person is endowed with a moral conscience that enables him to recognize the truth concerning good and evil. Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  14. Supernatural Nature Natural Means End End Human Rights and Duties Know Truth - Reason truth Summum Love - Free Will good/beautiful Bonum Should do - Conscience moral good Beatitude Basic needs Eternal Life - Body health/life DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  15. We are Pro-Life. 5) The human person is essentially a social and relational being. (Fig. 3) Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

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  17. We are Pro-Life. • The Christian view of the human person balances the mystery of sin with the universality of salvation in Jesus Christ. Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  18. II. We are for Responsible Parenthood. Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  19. Responsible Parenthood (HV) “In relation to physical, economic, psychological and social conditions, responsible parenthood is exercised, either by the deliberate and generous decision to raise a numerous family, or by the decision, made for grave motives and with due respect for the moral law, to avoid for the time being, or even for an indeterminate period, a new birth.” (HV, 10) Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  20. Responsible Parenthood (PCP II) “Christian parents must exercise responsible parenthood. While nurturing a generous attitude towards bringing new human life into the world, they should strive to beget only those children whom they can raise up in a truly human and Christian way. Towards this end, they need to plan their families according to the moral norms taught by the Church.” (PCP II, 583) Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  21. Table 1. Wanted and actual fertility rates of Filipino families by wealth quintiles. Wealth Wanted Actual Difference Quintile Fertility Rate Fertility Rate Lowest 3.3 5.2 -1.9 Second 2.9 4.2 -1.3 Middle 2.4 3.3 -0.9 Fourth 2.2 2.7 -0.5 Highest 1.6 1.9 -0.3 Source: National Demographic and Health Survey of 2008 Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  22. Role of the Christian Family • Forming a community of persons • an “intimate community of life and love” • Equal dignity of parents, children, elderly • “a school of deeper humanity” Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  23. Role of the Christian Family • Serving life. • “transmitting by procreation the divine image from person to person” • conjugal love – “fully human, exclusive and open to new life” • family as “the first school of social living” Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  24. Role of the Christian Family • Participating in the development of society. • the “first school of the social virtues” • the family plays a social and political role • live out the values of truth, justice, freedom and love Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  25. Role of the Christian Family • Sharing in the life and mission of the Church • family as the “domestic church” • Christian marriage as a “profession of faith” • Discover the image of God in every brother and sister Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  26. III. We are for Natural Family Planning. Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  27. What is Natural Family Planning (NFP)? Natural Family Planning (NFP) is an approach for regulating births by identifying the fertile and infertile periods of a woman’s cycle. Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  28. What is Natural Family Planning (NFP)? • As an educational process and a way of life, there are four elements: • It involves the observation of a naturally occurring body sign or signs • in order to identify the woman’s fertile and infertile periods. • It involves the timing of intercourse • to avoid or achieve pregnancy. Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  29. What is Natural Family Planning (NFP)? • NFP methods are Fertility Awareness Based (FAB), as classified by the World Health Organization Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  30. In contrast to artificial contraceptives, NFP means No DIDO – i.e., NODrugs Injections Devices Operations at any time. It also means no withdrawal. What is Natural Family Planning (NFP)? Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  31. Our “All-NFP” Program means we: • include all modern NFP • methods; • reach out to all chapel • communities & households; • promote NFP all the way, i.e., • without back-up contraceptives Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  32. All - NFP includes the following methods: • Basal Body Temperature (BBT) • Billings Ovulation Method (BOM) • Sympto-Thermal Method (STM) • Lactational Amenorrhea Method (LAM) • Standard Days Method (SDM) • TwoDay Method (TDM) Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

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  34. Consensus on Natural Family Planning and the Standard Days Method Reached at the CBCP Plenary Assembly in Jan. 2009 1. The Standard Days Method, provided it is not mixed with contraceptives, is a natural family planning method and is consistent with the moral teaching of the Catholic Church. The bishop should inform the priest or lay faithful who think otherwise and should stop him from spreading his error. Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  35. Consensus on Natural Family Planning and the Standard Days Method • It belongs to the bishop to decide whether his diocese will promote or not the SDM, in accordance with his pastoral discernment. Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  36. Consensus on Natural Family Planning and the Standard Days Method 3. The bishop may not prohibit any couple in his diocese from using SDM as their method of natural family planning. “ In necessariis, unitas; in dubiis, libertas; in omnibus, caritas.” + GABRIEL V. REYES, D.D. Facilitator of the Dialogue Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

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  38. Why Natural Family Planning? 1. Normal intercourse is preserved. Couples can plan the size of their families and space births the natural way. Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  39. Why Natural Family Planning? 2. NFP is morally acceptable to people of all religions. It does not separate the love-giving and life-giving dimensions of the marriage act. Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  40. Why Natural Family Planning? 3. Modern NFP methods are effective and reliable. They are based on scientific evidence. Simplified methods are easy to learn. Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  41. Why Natural Family Planning? 4. There are no inherent health risks in NFP methods, unlike the use of contraceptives. Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  42. Why Natural Family Planning? 5. NFP is pro-poor. Once the method has been learned, there is no cost involved. It empowers couples not to rely on health centers or drugstores. Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  43. Why Natural Family Planning? 6. NFP is sustainable across generations. Mothers can readily pass on the practice of NFP to their daughters. Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  44. Why Natural Family Planning? 7. NFP involves a joint decision by the couple. Neither partner feels being used by the other. Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  45. Why Natural Family Planning? 8. Through periodic abstinence, NFP engenders sexual discipline for the spouses, mutual caring, and self-control in the rearing of children. Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  46. Why Natural Family Planning? 9. NFP enhances communication between spouses and promotes a wholesome family life. NFP couples seldom or never end up in separation or divorce, or resort to abortion. Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  47. Why Natural Family Planning? 10. NFP can be used to avoid or achieve pregnancy. Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  48. Natural Family Planning “Periodic continence, that is, the methods of birth regulation based on self-observation and the use of infertile periods, is in conformity with the objective criteria of morality. These methods respect the bodies of the spouses, encourage tenderness between them, and favor the education of an authentic freedom.” (CCC, 2370) Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

  49. IV. We are for enabling couples to make an Informed and Morally Responsible Choice, according to the dictates of a Right Conscience. Responsible Parenthood and All-Natural Family Planning Program

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